Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-08-06
IN EUROPEAN sALLRooMs.
America's Famous Dancing Master Com-
 ments on Scenes There.

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 Mir Allen Dodworth sat in his apart ment in the Avenue de rAlma and talked over the state of affairs in Europe from a terpsichorean point of view. "A European ballroom, '' said he, lis full of surprises to an American. In the first place, he is astonished to find that in general, leaving out the very high society people, every one dances with every one else, without intro duction. Approve of it? Of course don't. Do you think would wish my daughters to be addressed by any stranger who hap pened to take fancy to themS Another thing which startles US is the cordial re- ception accorded to negroes. Why, in 8 large ball at any of the various European resorts you will see men of all colors, from jet black down to a pale yellow, waltzing with the young Indies, chatting and fiirt- ing with them in fact, quito as well re ceived as any one else. Of course, there is no reason why they should not be if they behave themselves; but all the same, it does grate on the feelings of an Ameri- can to see pretty girl whirling about in the arms of a thick tipped African"
 ''Do you think that they waltz in Eu- rope as we dos' asked.
 Decidedly not, !" he replied. 'tThey do not reverse, for instance, but go spinning around with perfectly fiat motion, like top. It is 0 mystery how they can keep it up so long without falling. Of course, too, this style of waltzing makes it quite impossible t9 avoid constant collisions l remember an amusing sight at Wiesbaden two summers ago. A gentleman and lady, both Americans, were taking part in one of the grand balls, and were waltzing as we always do at home. We'll, the Ger mans all around them finally began to get | annoyed at the clever way in which they would shoot in and out through the | crowd, and at last several couples tried to push into them. However, at each at- tempt of this kind. the gentleman would skillfully change his direction and avoid the encounter I never laughed more heartily, and assure ycu the Americans were not touched once. Oh, our superior ity in the waltz is very generally admitted, | even in Europe heard an interesting story Illustrating this only few weeks ago. It was on the occasion of splendid ball given in Athens at the kings palace. An American couple were on the floor, and, both being passionately fond of a waltz, were so absorbed in it that they hardly noticed that, one by one, the other dancers had retired, and that at last they were quite alone. It was only when the prince himself began to clap his hands that burst of applause showed them that they had been the objects of general ad- 1 miration.
 "I had 8 long talk few days ago with Desoria, one of the best known dancing teachers in Paris. It was he who taught the De Lesseps children to dance the Peacock, which they did at an entertain ment given some weeks ago at M. de Les seps' house It is an old fashioned quad rifle which was popular in the time ol Louis XV, and they danced it very nicely He tells me that young men come to hin a4d expect to learn the walA in two ol three lessons, and really he would not be heve me when told him that have had pupils begin with me at years of age and leave me at their marriage, only to sent me their own children later on. Yes, sir I have taught in families on Fifth avenue for three generations '-New York Sun